Website design and filmmaking by Ben Vallack
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SetSeed has revolutionised how you control the content of your website. Never before have power and simplicity worked so well together. But SetSeed does more than simplify content entry, it dynamically powers your complete website; sporting an online shop, a blog, image galleries, contact forms, RSS feeds, email newsletter and mailing list and so much more.
SetSeed is a single system which is always up to date. That means as we make improvements, you'll automatically see them, and won't need to pay for software updates in the future.
Intuitive, task-based interface
Flexible shop system lets you sell products on any page
Concise video training library to help you get started
Add images, videos, slideshows and galleries to your pages
Blog system with authors, categories and comments
Email newsletter system built-in
Interactive calendar lets you add events in multiple categories
Password protect pages
Automatic version control, preview and publish drafts
Easily create simple or complex contact forms
Let your customers send you instant messages with Livechat
Create multiple admin accounts with privileges for your staff
Full-site search built in
Search engine optimised, including sitemaps and meta information
Your site will generate RSS feeds for your blog as well as comments
Our pre-designed website package is the perfect way to get started with your first website. Make the pre-designed site your own by choosing your own colour pallet, background image and typography (fonts). Start adding content with SetSeed and upgrade to a partial or full custom design in the future.
Choose a colour pallet to suit your brand
Choose a typography (fonts) style
Upload your own background photo
This package is great if you want something a bit more unique than our Pre-Designed package. We can start with the Pre-Designed template and apply some custom design treatment to it to give it an original look. Because we're not designing a site from scratch, this is a very affordable approach.
Get the design you’ve always dreamed of with our fully bespoke ‘Pro’ website package. We’ll start from the ground up and design a beautiful, functional website template which will let your content shine through. We’ll work with you throughout the process to ensure your design is exactly what you’re after.
We'll work from your brief to create a design that meets your requirements.
Home page design layout created specifically for the content you want to show on your homepage.
Inner page layout created specifically to display your main content in a suitable format.
Super-clean design on dark background. Perfect for photography display.
Template incorporates a custom designed gallery display which accepts any number of images. Gracefully accepts and aligns images of any ratio. Scrolling interface responds to mouse wheels/trackpad.
Large image display loads dyanimcally when thumbnails are clicked. No need for whole page to re-load. Also includes provision to sell prints of images on password protected pages.
“I couldn't be happier with my website. When I first saw the finished mock up, it was exactly as I had seen it in my head. Brilliant. I have total control and can instantly update my site at any time. The training videos that are provided are excellent and comprehensive and the general support from Phototropic is brilliant. Very happy!”
Antonia Chick
Antonia Chick Photography
Sky, foliage and earth inspired colour scheme inline with client’s product.
Persistent call to action in header on all pages.
Atmospheric/light treatment to reflect nature of client’s products.
Reusable template areas to create links to different sections of the site. Client has full control with SetSeed.
Vertical format menu to accommodate large top-level main menu. Client can add pages and sub-pages easily using SetSeed.
“We worked with Phototropic to produce our new website. They listened to us and came up with a format we absolutely love. Since launching the new website we have had lots of compliments on how clean and friendly it is, but still very informative. We would recommend Phototropic to anybody.”
Les Lane
Managing Director, XL Horticulture
We designed this client’s logo as part of the service.
Spacious design based on a grey colour pallet to reflect the technical and precise nature of the product
Slideshow system to show images with captions and allow visitors to advance slides, manually or automatically.
Three column footer section for product and news.
“We were lucky to find Ben. He's highly talented and very easy to work with. His system was perfect for us. First he designed a superb website, then with SetSeed he gave us a means of editing and updating that is flexible and easy to use. He is the ideal website designer.”
Simon Foxall
Focus On Sound
Design based on client’s existing branding.
Advanced slideshow system to display main areas of website with links, image and text.
Three columns with further slideshow systems to display multiple slides of content without cluttering the page.
“Thank you so much for everything you’ve done with the website and all the help you’ve given us. You’ve really done a great job. I genuinely think it’s going to make a big difference to how OC Robotics is perceived by potential clients. The response has been unanimously positive. Seeing it going live is fantastic.”
Jules Foxall
OC Robotics
Light on dark design to reflect the nature of Fantastic Illumination’s products
Main menu system with subpage drop down menu to display categories and sub-categories in shop.
Gallery format designed to show captions and large versions on a two-stage thumbnail system.
Shop system to show price, calculate VAT and display stock levels
“Ben Vallack demystifies the black magic world of web site design and more importantly for us, the ability to make changes, add pages etc in real time without the need of any third party companies. It is a dream, simple, straight forward and good value. If you need to edit your web site content on a regular basis, I have no hesitation in recommending Phototropic.”
Dan Haygarth
Fantastic Illuminations
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Phototropic was established in 2001 by Ben Vallack, offering great value web design and filmmaking services to small business. Formerly based in Exeter, we're now based in Trowbridge, Wiltshire.
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